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[Bill Ricker]

> > Who do you mean when you say "ubuntu are surprised"?
>
> Oh people in the community, people from Canonical who make launchpad etc.

Let's solve the right problem here ...

Approving anyone with no validation at all is obviously not acceptable
if Launchpad ids are in use in the wider community as a minimal
mechanism of trust.

To ban any ID that isn't a "real name" doesn't solve their problem.
Someone can register under a non-obviously-false realname if we still
approve blindly, and it's not even obviously fake. At least "mako" and
"Guinea-pig" are obviously pseudonymous.

Pseudonyms that *we* don't recognize are a problem in *our* group, and
if we're implicitly vetting folks for other ubuprojects, their future
acts may be a problem *for* our group.

Pseudonyms aren't the problem, non-members in a members list is a problem.

If someone has a(n apparently) real name and has no connection with
the group other than launchpad -- no postings, no email, no IRC
presence, nothing -- should ask them why they're affiliated and drop
'em if no (satisfactory) answer.

Likewise if pseudonymous, although you might want to raise the bar
*slightly* for "they've actually shown up and someone knows who they
are" or at least "yeah, that's the email address s/he always uses".

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com